Speaking in Ohio on Friday afternoon, Donald Trump told supporters that an F.B.I. inquiry into the Clinton Foundation, which has been described as unwarranted by Justice Department officials, is likely to yield an indictment.

"The FBI says their investigation is also likely to yield, perhaps, an indictment" Trump says leaning on a walked back Fox report.

What Trump is either unaware of, or unconcerned with, is the fact that the sole source of that report, Bret Baier of Fox News, appeared on the channel on Friday morning to apologize for getting the facts wrong.

It was the second straight day that Baier had attempted to undo the damage he caused by telling his colleague Brit Hume on Wednesday that unnamed sources told him that agents — described in other reports as a pro-Trump cell, chomping at the bit to indict Hillary Clinton — planned to keep digging and an indictment was “likely.”

Trump has apparently decided not to back away from that claim, even after Baier retracted it.

On Thursday night, after NBC News reported that there was no truth to the idea that indictments were coming, Trump’s campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, observed, with no apparent concern for the truth, “Well, the damage is done to Hillary Clinton, no matter how its being termed.”